{"id":365436,"date":"2026-10-06T03:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365436\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T03:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:26:11","slug":"david-bednar-is-exactly-what-yankees-need-now-and-going-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365436\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bednar is exactly what Yankees need \u2014 now and going forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yankees closer David Bednar, who had a superb season, is known for a varied repertoire and world-class courage \u2014 or big stones, as they say in baseball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also known for his motto: \u201cWhatever the team needs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s especially true now, when the team may need more considering the higher stakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s what the playoffs are all about,\u201d Bednar said. \u201cYou\u2019re just trying to find a way to win every game. That\u2019s what you work all the 162 for, to have this opportunity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yankees closer David Bednar, who had a superb season, is known for a varied repertoire and world-class courage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67648,20,5515,9,11,10,321,319,428],"class_list":["post-365436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-david-bednar","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}